Clinic
Charleston Ent Associates, LLC
Charleston Ent Associates, LLC was paid $2.76M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is 69436, Tympanostomy (requiring insertion of ventilating tube), general anesthesia — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCHARLESTON ENT ASSOCIATES, LLC
CHARLESTON, SC 29407
CHARLESTON, SC 29407
33aNPI1124026422assigned 07/11/2005
33bProvider typeAmbulatory Surgical Clinic/Center
28Total paid$2.76M
24GClaims10,325
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center providers in South Carolina
Rank by total paid#4 of 38
Median peer was paid$106K
This provider vs. median26×
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,563 | $423K | |
| 2019 | 1,842 | $492K | |
| 2020 | 953 | $253K | |
| 2021 | 913 | $233K | |
| 2022 | 1,700 | $446K | |
| 2023 | 2,028 | $550K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,326 | $368K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69436 | Tympanostomy (requiring insertion of ventilating tube), general anesthesia | 57% | 7,330 | 3,837 | $1.58M |
| 42820 | Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy; younger than age 12 | 29% | 1,862 | 1,808 | $806K |
| 42830 | 12% | 944 | 920 | $344K | |
| 42821 | <1% | 25 | 24 | $10K | |
| 31238 | <1% | 48 | 30 | $8K | |
| 30802 | <1% | 71 | 70 | $7K | |
| 69424 | <1% | 33 | 26 | $5K | |
| 30520 | <1% | 12 | 12 | $4K |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialTHOMPSON, CHARLENE (BILLING MANAGER)
Parent organizationCHARLESTON ENT ASSOCIATES, LLC
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Charleston Ent Associates LLC | Orangeburg, SC | $87K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.